AI searchBlocking it costs you visibility
YouBot
Indexes pages for You.com answers.
- robots.txt token
YouBot- Operator
- You.com ↗
- Powers
- You.com answers
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes, documented
Allow it
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /Block it
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /Need the whole file, with every crawler and your private paths — and the llms.txt to go with it? The generator writes them. AI config generator →
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot (+http://www.you.com)) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probeThis is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.
Check your own site
robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse YouBot before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.
Free, no account, about 5 seconds.